How to behave online: the new rules

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1. The family that tweets together, isn’t together
Every movie night starts with the same row. “Right, devices down,” someone
says. My husband, glued to his iPad, grunts. My younger son hides his phone
under a cushion to monitor incoming texts. But I’m the worst. “Get off
Twitter, Mum!” is the perpetual cry, as I sneak a peek during the longueurs
of a car chase. “It’s like you aren’t here,” my husband complains when we’re
all watching an event such as the Olympic opening ceremony and I’m
simultaneously broadcasting my thoughts. “Why don’t you tell us – not them?”
But lately